This is my first foray into writing music for picture and is my entry for the Score Relief 2021 competition. #scorerelief2021

Score Relief is raising funds in support of the Backup Hardship Fund, which provides relief to technical workers from the events and entertainment industries, and their families, who have lost income, or experienced other difficulties, as a result of the pandemic.

The link for donations is
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My thanks also go to The CueTube for the opportunity they have given composers in creating this competition.
You can visit their website here
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Background Information

I am from the UK and have recently retired from a non-music related profession. I can now dedicate time to one of my great passions - the production and composition of music. I learnt to play piano and violin at school, played in various youth orchestras, built a modular synthesizer from a kit when I was at college and have used computers and Cubase to produce music for the best part of 30 years.

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Here’s how I made my competition entry.

I decided I would attempt this in 3 parts or cues, and as it happens I started writing with the feel good “Main Theme” at the end (Cue 3).

So my Cue 3 starts after the chase downwards and begins where the young girl takes full control over the beings with the long legs and gets them marching up the hill. The music starts gently and develops and intensifies throughout. There is a final solo piano rendition of the theme over the final credits at the end of the video.

Cue 2 or the chase downhill sequence, I wrote next and decided that I would keep to a relatively simple rhythm but keeping it going throughout. I reduced the intensity of the music at the point when the dog saves the day but tried to keep the momentum going while the young girl catches up and regains control of the situation.

Cue 1 at the beginning, I wrote last of all. It has gentle upwardly moving strings during the prologue, a hint to the Cue 3 melody on piano which I tried to synchronise with the sound of the young girl activating her staff for the final note of the theme, and then finally more powerful strings building to the calamity point when the girl tumbles and loses the object down the hillside. The chord progression used is the one that will become the basis for Cue 3.

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I have scored my music specifically for the Northern Film Orchestra which is comprised of the following 27 musicians

4 1st violin
4 2nd violin
4 viola
3 cello
1 double bass
1 flute
1 clarinet
1 oboe
1 bassoon
2 horns
1 trumpet
1 trombone
1 percussion
1 harp
1 piano

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I used the following sound libraries in my production -

Cinematic Studio Series - Woodwinds, Brass and Strings including Solo Strings
Spitfire Audio - Harp, Albion ONE and Albion NEO
CineSamples - CinePerc
Sample Logic - Drum Fury
Piano - Noire and The Grandeur both by Native Instruments

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The video animation "Spring" is courtesy of the Blender Foundation
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Good Luck to all entering the competition.

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